ABC_Project

ABC's of colonial America
Date: March 12 2007

A - Artisans
A skilled manual worker who uses tools & machinery in a particular craft


B - Blacksmith
A person who creates objects from steel or iron


C - Cash Crops
A crop that is grown for money


D - Debtors Prison
A prison for owing money (debt) and they stay here untill they pay off the debt


E - England
A country


F - Farmers
A person who cultivates land or raises animals or grows crops


G - Georgia
A state that was named after King George and was known as 1 of the 6 first colonies

H - House of Burgesses
The colonial representative assembly of Virginia

I - Indentured servants
Servants who came over for four to seven years without pay to pay off their traveling charge

J - Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement